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Mapping

The David Rumsey Collection was started nearly 20 years ago, and focuses primarily on cartography of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries, but also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, books, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps, including pocket, wall, children’s and manuscript.

Navigateur Urbain, or Navurb for short is an on line map including the subway system, parks, Geobase and elevations of buildings and topography of the city of Montreal. This interactive map is seriously full of information and if you need to know say how high your neighbours house is, this is the place to look.

PolicyMap is a revolutionary, easy, new way to explore geographic data through maps, tables and reports. Policy Map is GIS and Demographic Mapping Made Easy: PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts

Plot out safe bike routes through New York City using this tool. The concept is pretty simple. Just like MapQuest, Google, Microsoft, and other mapping programs, Ride the City finds the shortest distance between two points. But there are two major differences. First, RTC excludes roads that aren’t meant for biking, like the BQE and the Queens Midtown tunnel. Second, RTC tries to locate routes that maximize the use of bike lanes and greenways.

A collection of maps of different type and intent. There is everything from the ‘Sarajevo Siege Map’ to ‘The Cat’s Map of the Bed.’ While this site could be the source of the perfect map for what you are looking for, the joy of it is in its very randomness.

Networking

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